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A former Huntsville teacher, Shane Ryan Sealy, 34, allegedly showed up to counter protest. He exchanged words with another protestor and then pulled out a gun, according to WHNT News.
Other attendees described him as a “a lunatic counter protester” and praised police for quickly arresting him.
“He pulled out a gun. I saw him holding it out in front of him. We just started screaming for everybody to drop to the ground,” said Ava Caldwell, the rally’s organizer. “We all dropped to the ground crying.”
Sealy was arrested before firing any shots. The police pointed out that he was not allowed to have a firearm within 1,000 feet of the protest.
Someone with the same name and location as Sealy has a Facebook profile which is full of extremist conservative propaganda.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two opposing protest groups -- Patriot Prayer and antifa -- clashed in downtown Portland Saturday, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN reports. Portland police said failure to leave the area could leave to arrests, calling the demonstration a riot.
More than 100 members of Patriot Prayer group gathered at Terry Schrunk Plaza for a "freedom rally," while more than 100 counter protesters with an antifa group gathered across the street at Chapman Square for rallies before a march. Police revoked Patriot Prayer's permit for the rally after the two groups began to clash.
People were lighting firecrackers and smoke bombs in the crowd while police used flash bangs in an effort to disperse the clashing protesters. Police tweeted Saturday night they used "aerial distractions" and not tear gas.
Patroit Prayer organizer Joey Gibson told KOIN the clashes "good in terms that we showed that there's a political move right now to have the police stand down in order to impact free speech in some of these big cities."
"Portland's the last city on the West Coast that's doing that, so we just have to keep hitting it -- I don't see what else to do other than that," Gibson said. "We'll make Portland so ugly in terms of how they allow these protesters to charge us when we have a permit. The police stood down, we were told they would not stand down, so we have to challenge it."
I had folks trying to get me banned years ago when I talked about white supremacy. Now I see we have an official thread on here. Glad NT has grown to acknowledge the problem....too bad it could've been a little more proactive when I was presenting the facts about how fast it was becoming more overt
Right-Wing Activists Patriot Prayer, Antifa Clash at Portland Protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/defend-pdx-patroit-prayer-portland-clash-today-2018-06-30/
NORWICH - A Norwich mother is speaking out after she said she was attacked by a group of people with her toddler in the backseat.
Thaniyyah Hutchinson, 37, said she was was driving home late Sunday night when five people allegedly ganged up on a black man in the street. She said she called 911 but that is when she said the gang turned on her and her toddler.
Hutchinson said she saw the black man run away and Norwich police said they are looking for him.
"They kept hitting him and he kept falling, but he kept getting up," said Hutchinson.
When she called 911, she said the group of people jumped on the hood of her car and shouted racial slurs.
"They called me n*****, they called me B-I-T-C-H, told me to get the “eff” out of here, they called my son names, they called him half racial, they called him a mutt," added Hutchinson.
"Especially when the officers were over there, they had witnessed some of the derogatory remarks and bigotry statements," said Lt. John Perry of the Norwich Police Department.
Norwich police said a 15-year-old smashed Hutchinson's back passenger side window. Glass shattered all over her toddler who was sleeping at the time and luckily, he was not hurt. This mother said she is now afraid for her life.
"You all destroyed me. I feel hurt, I’m scared, I don’t know who to trust, this is at my own corner store where I look over my shoulder and I can’t take my baby to the corner store," added Hutchinson.
Police said five people were charged but were not taken to jail and no mugshots were taken.
Instead, they were each issued a summons to appear in court.
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A millionaire African-American businessman and his son were the victims of a virulent hate crime this week while on vacation in Florida.
Frank Davis was enjoying his Fourth of July holiday with his son, Michael, at the upscale Art Ovation Hotel in Sarasota when they discovered a note inside their room that read: 'You're a N****r.'
The incident evidently occurred after an unidentified person snuck into Davis' hotel room while he and his son were at breakfast and left the disturbing 2-by-5 post-it note on a bedside lamp, according to The New York Post.
'I was stone cold for 30 to 40 seconds when I read the note,' Michael Davis, 27, told The Post.
'My first thought was, what did we do to deserve this? We tipped well, we were beyond nice to all the staff.'
The note so unnerved the Davis family that they immediately phoned the police and the front desk of the hotel to report what happened.
The Sarasota Police Department said they are still investigating the incident while no suspects have been named.
Frank Davis (pictured) was enjoying his Fourth of July holiday with his son, Michael, at the Art Ovation Hotel in Sarasota
Frank Davis, 58, co-founder of the multi-million dollar real-estate investment company Horizon Group, said that the note left him deeply saddened.
Nevertheless, the life-long diversity advocate, who recently donated $5 million to his alma mater, Bucknell University, for a new building and for minority recruitment, took a broad view of situation.
'It is critical that we all be champions for diversity and inclusion every day,' he said.
Although the hotel, part of the Marriott chain, refunded the family's Marriott points used on the six-day trip, the Davises claimed that management refused to help them find suitable accommodations, checking into another lodging two hours away.
'The whole experience has been very awful and saddening. Despite our best efforts to be friendly, welcoming guests, someone chose to hate us simply for the color of our skin,' said Michael Davis, whose mother is from New York City.
A Marriott spokesperson said that the company has apologized to the family over the incident and that the staff at the Sarasota facility will be undergo sensitivity training.
'The matter is being actively investigated and appropriate actions will be taken,' the spokesperson said.